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Dr. Karen Blough


Professor Emerita of Art 

Karen Blough joined the SUNY Plattsburgh art faculty in 1999. Prof. Blough received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1995 with a doctoral thesis entitled Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Codex Barberini latinus 711: A Late Tenth-Century Illustrated Gospel Lectionary from Reichenau. She has regularly presented her work on early medieval manuscript illumination and female abbatial patronage in the Middle Ages at several professional conferences, including among others the annual conference of the College Art Association, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds (Great Britain), and the Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (Michigan), and the biennial conference of the Early Books Society. Prof Blough has served as a peer reviewer for various journals and publishers and for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

While on the faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh, Professor Blough taught courses on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art, book art, Latin American art, and, as the first recipient of the Rabin Fellowship in Judaic Perspectives, premodern Jewish art.

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